“Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.” ThinkingImportantFeelingsSufferingCommunitySpaceFailingCryExpressionOkayHappy LifeSad DayExpression Of Feeling Author:Marianne Williamson
“I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound super loud and aggressive. And yet they were punk because they were creating culture in their own community instead of taking their cue from MTV about what was real music and what was cool. It wasn't about a certain fashion. It was about your ideology, it was about creating a community and doing it on your own and not having to rely on, kinda, "The Man" to brand you and say that you were okay.” MenRealCertainCultureSoundCommunityRecordsFashionHe ManBandCreatingOkayIdeologyBrandsGenreLoudRelyAggressivePunkMtvReal Music Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin with. I visited a lot of extreme communities, like the Amish, Hasidic Jews, and serpent-handlers. And I was proud, because I think I'm the first person to ever out-Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness. After four hours, he said, "Okay, I have to go."” ThinkingFirstsPersonsSaidCommunityHoursFourProudOrdinaryOkayJewExtremesWitnessFirst PersonOrdinary LifeSerpentJehovahAmish Author:A. J. Jacobs
“Of course, we're supportive of the gay and lesbian community. I've just never portrayed that on camera. Once I met Taylor [Schilling] I knew that it was going to be really comfortable and okay, but the nudity was a little bit of an issue for me.” LittlesCoursesBitsCommunityIssuesMetsGayComfortableLittle BitOkayCamerasSupportiveNudity Author:Laura Prepon
“Sometimes you come from your community, and then you rise. It's like, okay, when do you get back rooted into your community? A lot of times you can rise in the ranks and maybe leave the core of where you come from.” SometimesCommunityOkayCoreGet BackRootedWhere You Come Author:Common
“I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm going to write books not only for the Christian community, but also for the secular community." I found it really rewarding because the last one to use my gifts and advantages to people who look at church as not on their radar screen at all, it gives me favor with - I do a lot with Fortune 500 companies now.” PeopleGivingWritingLooksSaidBookUseChristianLastsFoundGivenCommunityChurchCompanyCallingAdvantageOkayGive MeFortuneIntentionScreensFavorsSecularRadarChristian Community Author:John C. Maxwell
“I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so it's okay. We're not going to say anything even though we're seething." And I hang out with a lot of middle-aged black women, and they're not casual in their support of me. There's a lot of love forthcoming. Partly because they understand the constraints of this society. They know that this is hard.” KnowsWellsHardBlackCommunitySupportMiddlePercentOkayAfrican AmericanHanging OutSay AnythingBlack WomenCasualConstraintsMiddle AgedThis SocietyForthcomingSeething Author:Barack Obama
“We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.” ThinkingCommunityResponsibilityOkayAbandonNeglectOur Community Author:T.I.